Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

[Charles Albert]

If you own it for less than $20 bucks, even adjusted for inflation, the
Compact Edition is a miracle and indispensable.
It is the one thing I haven't manage to misplace in over 30 years.....

love,
cfa

On 5/3/07, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.org> wrote:
>
>
> You mean the one with the little drawer for the magnifying glass one
> needs in order to read anything in it? Yes, we have a copy.
>
> Do we ever use it?  The magnifying glass? Yes, to read the telephone
> book. The two volumes? Yes, once in a while. Maybe every two or three
> years.
>
> Lawrence
>
> On May 3, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Ya Sam wrote:
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> It goes without saying that OED is the best companion when hunting
> down obscure words in Pynchon but it is unlikely that I'll ever get
> the 20 volume set. Hence my question: Does anyone here have the 2
> volume SOED? Is it enough for you when reading logomaniac authors,
> would you recommend it?
>
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